Posted February 14, 2016
Issue
Loki the Vagabound is a hidden character with a written requirement that says 'Play 200 games to unlock this character'. After 24-28 games* the character was somehow unlocked for play, leaving a full complement of playable characters.
This is either a weird bug or a typo in the description of the requirement to unlock Loki.
Suggestion
I would urge Milkstone Studios, if they actually see this, to fix/adjust this situation so that Loki can be unlocked much sooner than 200 played games. As low as 24-28? Perhaps, but certainly no more than 40.
The leaderboards suggest that many players aren't playing with multiple characters and the Ziggurat Wikia** tacitly advises players to take a cheap route to unlocking the character. 200 played games, if accurate, doesn't encourage people to play longer in order to experience challenging play with a new character and Loki isn't so powerful to put behind such a wall.
There is already a serious balance issue present in the way perks both unlock and appear, as well as the possibility to not find a given weapon type across 5 levels. (There is a reason that few people play Menzi the Shaman; they are perhaps more demanding than is fair to play given game mechanics.) The gameplay is already very challenging in different character presets, fast and Bullet Hell-esque gameplay. Locking any character doesn't promote the challenge and variety that this game offers and especially at 200 played games.
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*I didn't count which game I was on as there is no real way to count how many games that have been played if this character has been unlocked. I knew that it was at most 28 games because a Load Screen came up telling me how many games I played.
**http://ziggurat.wikia.com/wiki/Loki_the_Vagabond
Loki the Vagabound is a hidden character with a written requirement that says 'Play 200 games to unlock this character'. After 24-28 games* the character was somehow unlocked for play, leaving a full complement of playable characters.
This is either a weird bug or a typo in the description of the requirement to unlock Loki.
Suggestion
I would urge Milkstone Studios, if they actually see this, to fix/adjust this situation so that Loki can be unlocked much sooner than 200 played games. As low as 24-28? Perhaps, but certainly no more than 40.
The leaderboards suggest that many players aren't playing with multiple characters and the Ziggurat Wikia** tacitly advises players to take a cheap route to unlocking the character. 200 played games, if accurate, doesn't encourage people to play longer in order to experience challenging play with a new character and Loki isn't so powerful to put behind such a wall.
There is already a serious balance issue present in the way perks both unlock and appear, as well as the possibility to not find a given weapon type across 5 levels. (There is a reason that few people play Menzi the Shaman; they are perhaps more demanding than is fair to play given game mechanics.) The gameplay is already very challenging in different character presets, fast and Bullet Hell-esque gameplay. Locking any character doesn't promote the challenge and variety that this game offers and especially at 200 played games.
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*I didn't count which game I was on as there is no real way to count how many games that have been played if this character has been unlocked. I knew that it was at most 28 games because a Load Screen came up telling me how many games I played.
**http://ziggurat.wikia.com/wiki/Loki_the_Vagabond
Post edited February 14, 2016 by TheBitterness